'The internet will collapse in 2006'

[STITCHES]

http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Business&ao=123911 But I need my internet! I guess I'm SOL.

[stoid]

Correction: Windows will collapse in 2006. It may take the internet with it.

[Blue Velvet]

Under the weight of...

"when's the G5 powerbook coming out" posts...

[Mr. Anderson]

Doomsday, of sorts there....

Hope to never see it, but it seems well within possible scenarios. I just hope fixing it doesn't take away too much privacy from the users....

D

[Chaszmyr]

Under the weight of...

"when's the G5 powerbook coming out" posts...

Nah, those take a distant second to "Free iPod!" ads

[LeeTom]

How can the Internet collapse? It already did back in 2000 when the Y2K bug sent us back into the stone age. oh, wait...... . . . . . . .

[Earendil]

The internet won't die, the machines would never allow it. After aal, if the internet died, where would they get their energy from?

[Mechcozmo]

"There are many bad people who want to create chaos on purpose," said Kari, who has in the past voiced doubts about the internet's future.


Yeah, many bad people trying to sell me viagra...

[kiwi-in-uk]

Correction: Windows will collapse in 2006. It may take the internet with it.

So will the captain go down with the ship?

[Axeon]

Cough yellow journalism cough.

This article made no argument whatsoever.

Thesis: Because of spam and hackers, the internet will die.

I am wondering what these two things have to do with each other? Spam has no affect on standalone servers, letalone backbones. Virii and hackers can't affect backbones -- for the most part. If they DID (extreme circumstance), most backbones would still be up. The only instance in which a backbone could really get knocked offline is through a massive DDoS, which wouldn't work very well and not last long.

As for spam... umm... ever heard of a spam filter? These sensationalistic "journalists" really need to try a little harder if they're going to cry "sinking of the Maine." At least Hurst proposed a somewhat credible scenario. This one doesn't even do that.

[the_mole1314]

Get your porn now guys.

[wdlove]

Sounds like for the infrastructure they should switch to soem xServe Raids. Mac OS X should be the new software or some other form of Unix. This just can't be 2006 is les than two years away. :eek:

[solvs]

Oh my God! By that logic, TV will cease to be because of commercials. How will we survive?

If anything deserves a :rolleyes: that does.

Edit: the article, I mean. Not wdlove. :p

[Abstract]

The internet won't die, the machines would never allow it. After aal, if the internet died, where would they get their energy from?

From naked people placed in pods, of course.

[rendezvouscp]

From naked people placed in pods, of course.

Could this be the reason that the rumoured 60GB iPods are supposedly larger? :p
–Chase

[iMeowbot]

Didn't you all hear? The Internet catastrophically collapsed in 1996 (http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/metcalfe/bm120495.htm).
A year later, the author even demonstrated the consequences (http://www.computer.org/internet/v1n3/eats9702.htm) of his prediction.

[Les Kern]

Some Finnish guy?
I can make my own prediction: The Internet will be expanded, and have a "channel" specifically for spam and viruses. There will also be one for Finnish scientists who spout doomsday while backing it up with zero facts.

[virividox]

THE BRITISH ARE COMING THE BRITISH ARE COMING

wait im not making sense

and neither is this article

[edesignuk]

Get your porn now guys.On it...:p

[Colonel Panik]

Two years is a long time in the computing world. And the people who'll be most affected by a collapse are the people who are most capable of preventing that collapse. So it won't happen. What will happen though, is that more and more people are going to become aware of good computing, security, etc.

[iriejedi]

So SAD - but that was the thought going through my head - where will all the porn go? Back to the Staple Age!


Get your porn now guys.

[Earendil]

Oh my God! By that logic, TV will cease to be because of commercials. How will we survive?

If anything deserves a :rolleyes: that does.

Edit: the article, I mean. Not wdlove. :p

I know your post had plenty of sarcasm in it, as well as some funny truth. So I don't know whether I'm pointing out the obvious what...but here it goes anyway ;)

From my understanding, the reason the internet will collapse is because of the traffic on the internet will exceed the bandwidth of the internet as a whole. Like adding 5x as many cars to the roads as exist right now. All the extra cars represent the increased spam and viruses, as well as more users using the internet with faster connections. This mean the average user won't be able to access parts of the internet, because whole sections of the internet and the infrastructure will be tied up and bogged down.
I think during the hight of whatever the big 2003 virus was (forgive me for forgetting, I'm a Mac user ;)) the statistic I kept hearing was the the virus accounted for 70% of all emails sent. Ouch.

Or was I reading way to far into the article and I just pulled all that out of my arse?

Tyler

[Earendil]

From naked people placed in pods, of course.

But the net is what keeps us all happy in our pods...

:( Is Steve a machine? :(

[jrv3034]

From naked people placed in pods, of course.

There's naked people in my iPod?!

Oh, wait... ;)

This article seems fairly fishy... Where are the sources? What research?

[sonyrules]

Yeah, many bad people trying to sell me viagra...

No kidding... Those are the people that need to be gone

[molcas&e'sdad]

I'm sure Al Gore intentionally created this doomsday scenario when he invented the internet ...

[entropybran]

Oh no not "Y2k6!".

bran

[rueyeet]

What will happen though, is that more and more people are going to become aware of good computing, security, etc.Nope...they haven't yet, and I don't see the mass market becoming more knowledgable faster than the rate of increase of viruses and spam.

The study and the article seem to me to be making that prediction based on current trends: i.e., if we don't do more than we're doing today, the amount of crap on web and email will so exceed the useful stuff as to tip the cost/benefit ratio of the Internet towards utter uselessness. Note that the overall conclusion is that we need more proactive action towards making sure this doesn't happen, not that it inescapably WILL happen. Which is pretty much the truth.

[Littleodie914]

Didn't you all hear? The Internet catastrophically collapsed in 1996 (http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/metcalfe/bm120495.htm).
A year later, the author even demonstrated the consequences (http://www.computer.org/internet/v1n3/eats9702.htm) of his prediction.Haha wow... And that's coming from the guy who invented ethernet! Guess I just don't understand how you'd want to invent and elaborate on something that is so closely tied in with the internet only to predict its downfall... ;)

[Hoef]

Can you imagine the energy savings this will create! .... All those routers, switches etc.... I am sure that it will lower our dependency on Saudi oil :p